WEBVTT TIFFANY: TERRI PARKER ILIVE THE NEWSROOM. AND TERRI, YOU SPOKE EXCLUSIVELY WITH THE SHERIFF ABOUT WHY THE TEST RESULTS ARE TAKI SO LONG. TERRI: I'VE LEARNED EXCLUSIVELY FROM THE SHERIFF T FBI HAS JUST TODAY FINALLY BEGUN TESTING AUSTIN HARROUFF'S BLOOD FOR THE PRESENCE OF BATH SALT-TYPE DRUGS. AND THE SHERIFF EXPLAINS WHIT IS TAKING SO LONG TO GET TSE RESULTS. IT'S NOW BEEN OVER FIVE WKS SINCE 19-YEAR-OLD AUSTIN HARROUFF WAS FOUND BY DEPUTIES BITING THE FACE AND BODY OF JOH6 C13 STEVENS IN STEVEN'S JUPITER DRIVEWAY. STEVEN'S WIFE MICHELLE MISHCON, STABBED TO DEATH IN THE GARAGE. AND STILL NO LAB RESULTS FROM THE FBI DETERMINING WHAT DRUGS HARROUFF MIGHT HAVE TAKEN. >> YEAH, IT'S A LITTLE BIT HARD6 C13 AND I'VE GOT A SON THAT WAS ALMOST KILLED, AND WE DON'T HAVE ANY ANSWERS. WHY? TERRI: STEVE FISHER, WHOSE SON JEFF RUSHED ACROSS THE STREET TRYING TO SAVE MICHELLE AND GOT SEVERELY STABBED HIMSE, ISN'T THE ONLY ONE ASKING THAT QUESTION. I ASKED SHERIFF WLIAM SNYDER, WHO REVEALS THE FBI ST BEGAN TESTING HARROUFF'S BLOOD THIS WEEK. >> THAT'S NEW INFORMATION, THAT JUST NOW THEY HAVE THEIR HANDS ON THAT BLOOD, THAT THELOOD IS GOING UNDER THE MICROSCOPE AND THAT THEY'RE ANALYZING IT FOR THE POSSIBILITY THERE ARE BATH SALTS IN THERE. TERRI: WAS HARROUFF ON BATH SALTS OR FLAKKA? THE FBI TO EXPEDITE THE BLOODWORK TO FIND OUT, THE AGENCY IS DOING THIS AS A FAVOR, AND THERE WERE OER CASES AHEAD OF THIS ONE. >> WE'RE REALLY NOT IN A POSITION TO PUSH ON THEM, IT'S A NATIONAL LAB. I MEAN YOU CAN SEE RECENTLY WE'VE HAD SOME PTTY B TERRORIST CASES, THAT LOSES A LOT OF EVIDENCE. WE HAVE TO WAIT OUR TURN IN LINE . IN DUE TIME WE'LL GET THOSE RESULTS BACK. HARROUFF REMAINS IN THE HOSPITAL. TERRI: SNYDER SAYS HE APPARENTL DRANK SOME TYPE OF USTIC CHEMICAL IN THE GARE THAT DAMAGED HIS THROAT >> HE'S NO LONGER INUNDATED BUT WE STILL HAVEOT BEEN ABLE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH HIM. TERRI: THE SHERIFF SAYS EVEN WHEN THEY GET THE BLOOD RESULTS, IT MAY ANSWER THE QUESTION AS TO WHETHER HARROUFF WAS ON DRU OR HAVING A PSYCHOTIC BREAK, IT WILL MAKE NO ULTIMATEIFFERENCE IN THEIR PENDING MURDER CHARGES

Five weeks after Austin Harrouff, 19, was found by Martin County deputies biting the face and body of John Stevens in Steven's Jupiter driveway, near where Steven's wife, Michelle Mishcon, had been stabbed to death in the garage, there are still no lab results determining whether Harrouff was on bath salts or Flakka.
Sheriff William Snyder, who asked the FBI to test Harrouff's blood the week after the attack and to expedite the analysis, admitted it is the most frequent question he hears.
"What is taking so long on the toxicology?" Snyder said.
Snyder said he'd just learned the FBI had started the analysis this week.
"That's new information, that just now they have their hands on that blood, that the blood is going under the microscope and they're analyzing it for the possibility there are bath salts in there," Snyder said.
Snyder said even though he asked the FBI to expedite the bloodwork to find out, the agency is doing this as a favor, and there were other cases ahead of this one.
"We're really not in a posistion to push on them; it's a national lab - I mean, you can see recently we've had some pretty big terrorist cases - that's a lot of evidence so we have to wait our turn in line," said Snyder.
But the wait has been hard for a community struggling to understand how the Florida State University student attacked two strangers in an attack detectives called one of the most horrific they'd ever seen.
"Yeah, it's a little bit hard and I've got a son that was almost killed, and we don't have any answers, why?" said Steve Fisher, whose son, Jeff, rushed across the street trying to save Michcon and got severely stabbed himself.
Snyder said Harrouff remains in the hospital, no longer intubated, but still not able to talk to detectives. Harrouff apparently drank some type of caustic chemical in the Stevens' garage that injured his esophagus.
Snyder said the lab results may answer questions as to whether drugs or psychosis caused the attack, but the answer won't affect the pending murder case against Harrouff.

STUART, Fla. —

Five weeks after Austin Harrouff, 19, was found by Martin County deputies biting the face and body of John Stevens in Steven's Jupiter driveway, near where Steven's wife, Michelle Mishcon, had been stabbed to death in the garage, there are still no lab results determining whether Harrouff was on bath salts or Flakka.

Sheriff William Snyder, who asked the FBI to test Harrouff's blood the week after the attack and to expedite the analysis, admitted it is the most frequent question he hears.

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"What is taking so long on the toxicology?" Snyder said.

Snyder said he'd just learned the FBI had started the analysis this week.

"That's new information, that just now they have their hands on that blood, that the blood is going under the microscope and they're analyzing it for the possibility there are bath salts in there," Snyder said.

Snyder said even though he asked the FBI to expedite the bloodwork to find out, the agency is doing this as a favor, and there were other cases ahead of this one.

"We're really not in a posistion to push on them; it's a national lab - I mean, you can see recently we've had some pretty big terrorist cases - that's a lot of evidence so we have to wait our turn in line," said Snyder.

But the wait has been hard for a community struggling to understand how the Florida State University student attacked two strangers in an attack detectives called one of the most horrific they'd ever seen.

"Yeah, it's a little bit hard and I've got a son that was almost killed, and we don't have any answers, why?" said Steve Fisher, whose son, Jeff, rushed across the street trying to save Michcon and got severely stabbed himself.

Snyder said Harrouff remains in the hospital, no longer intubated, but still not able to talk to detectives. Harrouff apparently drank some type of caustic chemical in the Stevens' garage that injured his esophagus.

Snyder said the lab results may answer questions as to whether drugs or psychosis caused the attack, but the answer won't affect the pending murder case against Harrouff.